Author: Richard Milligan

Richard is a recruiting coach, high-growth specialist, speaker, and champion of recruiting leaders across the nation. During his time in the mortgage industry, he built more than 20 teams and held leadership positions in Area, Regional, and VP roles. For the last 5 years, he has dedicated his time to developing a system that makes recruiting simple. He partners with and coaches industry leaders across the country to help them communicate their values, build systems that attract top talent, and position their companies for growth. Richard speaks at both public and private events across the U.S. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma with his children and wife.

Recruiting Leaders on Thanksgiving – Restoration Day

everybody it’s Richard Milligan here with recruiting conversations welcome back to their podcast I’m actually in a pretty cool location today I figured out how to take the podcast on the road that’s the and the road is not like our OAD it’s ro de because I figured out how to get a road microphone […]

Recruits Don’t Want to Work for Your Company

You’re building a team for the most innovative, interesting company in the industry, yet attracting new talent is harder than recruiting a penguin in the desert. You call and call, text and text, and wonder: Why aren’t candidates banging down your door to work with you? It’s because recruits don’t care about your company. They care […]

The #1 Recruiting Lesson I Learned from Growing Up Dirt Poor

At school, I was known as “the poor kid.” Let’s put it this way: I had to duct tape my tennis shoes, I wore clothes with holes in them before destroyed denim was a legitimate style, and I ate saltines and powdered milk for breakfast. When I left home at 19, I had just 50 […]

Why Most Recruiting Leaders Are Unable to Develop Cold Candidates

Welcome back. It’s another Recruiting Conversations with your host Richard Milligan. And today we’re going to actually discuss a question I had recently after an event, which actually tickled my funny bone, but that’s not that hard to do. I’m a bit immature in that particular area. Maybe it’s the fact that I had kids […]

The 3 Categories of Recruiting Leaders, Average, Good and Great

Learn the key pieces that go into building a team quickly So the big question is this, how to recruiting leaders like us who have 12 to 15 other job responsibilities win at this game of recruiting? How do we build a system that allows us to recruit effectively in a minimal amount of time […]